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THERE is no doubt, as M. Casimir de Candolle has recently shown in his paper on latent life in seeds, that all the functions of seeds can remain completely quiescent for a long period; probably in some cases this period may be indefinitely ong. In 1878 I published a paper1 on the resistance of seeds, especially of Medicago sativa, or lucerne, to the action of gaseous and liquid chemical reagents. An abstract of my experiments was published in NATURE, vol. xxv., 1882, p. 328.
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Italo Giglioli . "Resistenza di alcuni semi all' azione prolungata di agenti chimici, gasosi e liquidi," Gazzetta Chimica italiana, ix., 1879, p. 199; and Giorn. delle staz. sper. ital. viii., 1879, p. 199.
NATURE, December 7, 1893, p. 140.
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GIGLIOLI, I. Latent Vitality in Seeds. Nature 52, 544–545 (1895). https://doi.org/10.1038/052544c0
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